Collaborate Disseminate
The E.U. has been heavily criticised for not doing enough to bridge the technological gap between it and other global superpowers. Continue reading EU Partners With Venture Capital Firms to Boost Tech Investment
Harry R. Lewis has been a Harvard CS professor — teaching both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg — and the dean of Harvard college. Born in 1947, Lewis remembers flipping the 18 toggle switches on Harvard’s PDP-4 back in 1966 — up (“clic… Continue reading What Can We Learn from the Computers of 1966?
AI’s usefulness in the commercial and science sectors seems to grow daily. In the last few months alone we’ve seen it identify a new rare-earth-free magnet, analyze the emotions of crisis-line callers, help with weather and climate forecasting, and eve… Continue reading ‘AI employee’ takes over your Web browser, to take care of business
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: being able to build your own radios is the best thing about being an amateur radio operator. Especially low-power transmitters; there’s …read more Continue reading A Super-Simple Standalone WSPR Beacon
Unique clocks are a mainstay around here, and while plenty are “human readable” without any instruction, there are a few that take a bit of practice before someone can glean …read more Continue reading Clock Mixes Analog, Digital, Retrograde Displays
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Computer pioneer Gordon Bell, who as an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) played a key role in the development of several influential minicomputer systems and also co-founded th… Continue reading Gordon Bell, an Architect of Our Digital Age, Dies At Age 89
There’s no doubt that cheap digital calipers are useful, especially when designing 3D-printed parts. Unfortunately, cheap digital calipers are also cheap, and tend to burn through batteries quickly. Sure, you …read more Continue reading Solar Panel Keeps Cheap Digital Calipers Powered Up
The modern cellular network is a marvel of technological advancement that we often take for granted now. With 5G service it’s easy to do plenty of things on-the-go that would …read more Continue reading Emails Over Radio
In the late 90s as MP3s and various file sharing platforms became more common, most of us were looking for better players than the default media players that came with …read more Continue reading Raspinamp: It Really Replicates Questionable Activities Involving Llamas
Listening to police and fire calls used to be a pretty simple proposition: buy a scanner, punch in some frequencies — or if you’re old enough, buy the right crystals …read more Continue reading Pi 5 and SDR Team Up for a Digital Scanner You Can Actually Afford